Telephone lines were cut off at the Russian Consulate General in New York. This was reported to TASS by the diplomatic mission.
“All city telephone lines are almost completely disconnected, and there are many of them. From time to time there are problems with access to the Internet,” the agency’s interlocutor said.
According to him, such communication breakdowns did not occur before.
Earlier, the Russian Embassy in Washington accused the United States of starting a “visa war” and imposing on Russia the practice of personal visa exchanges.
On December 19, it became known about the US decision to close its consulates in Russia. At the same time, the State Department explained that such measures are associated with the optimization of the work of the American diplomatic mission. The State Duma considered that the closure of the consulates general could be associated with the anti-Russian fever of the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The consulate in Vladivostok was temporarily closed in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In Yekaterinburg, it continued to work, but on a limited basis. If closed, the only US diplomatic center in Russia will be the embassy in Moscow.